Define Employee Counselling

Introduction

The latest trend catching up in the corporate HR across the world is ‘Employee Counseling at Workplace’. In the world of ever increasing complexity and the stress in the lives, especially the workplaces of the employees, employee counseling has emerged as the latest HR tool to attract and retain its best employees and also to increase the quality of the workforce.

What is Employee Counseling?

Employee counseling can be explained as providing help and support to the employees to face and sail through the difficult times in life. At many points of time in life or career people come across some problems either in their work or personal life when it starts influencing and affecting their performance and, increasing the stress levels of the individual. Counseling is guiding, consoling, advising and sharing and helping to resolve their problems whenever the need arises. Technically, Psychological Counseling, a form of counseling is used by the experts to analyze the work related performance and behavior of the employees to help them cope with it, resolve the conflicts and tribulations and re- enforce the desired results.

The Aims of Counseling

Understanding self

Making impersonal decisions

Setting achievable goals which enhance growth

Planning in the present to bring about desired future

Effective solutions to personal and interpersonal problems.

Coping with difficult situations

Controlling self defeating emotions

Acquiring effective transaction skills.

Acquiring ‘positive self-regard’ and a sense of optimism about one’s own ability to satisfy one’s basic needs.